Elon Musk has cozied into Trump's White House. How long will this bromance last? | Katrina vanden Heuvel

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Though Trump was already the first major party nominee to own a social media platform in Truth Social, he now essentially leases a second one for free.
58% : While Trump received support from Musk gratis, his voters received million-dollar checks.
54% : Trump himself has described Musk and Ramaswamy as offering "advice and guidance from outside of government".
49% : But then Musk did buy Twitter, and began diligently turning it into a bastion of rightwing misinformation called X.The arc of this entanglement reached its inevitable conclusion when Musk rewired the platform's algorithm to promote his own conspiracies about immigrants and election interference, while also giving free advertisement to Trump to the tune of 2bn views.
44% : But Trump has consistently proven a more effective huckster than head of state.
43% : Like any great romcom, Musk and Trump got off to a rocky start.
42% : And if they dared touch entitlements like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, there won't be a Republican House for much longer.
32% : For all Musk's handwringing about "ballot harvesting", he engaged in a brazen election interference scheme when he more or less paid citizens to vote for Trump.
28% : And now that Musk's doubtfully legal efforts have paid off in the election of the country's first president with a felony conviction, the true singularity can begin - not the merging of humans with AI supposedly portended by Neuralink, but of Musk's agenda with Trump's.
12% : Two years ago, before he donned a "dark gothic Maga" cap himself, Musk was urging Trump to "hang up his hat", and Trump was calling Musk too chicken to buy Twitter.

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